Thus far, Maison Mattisse has collaborated to make limited edition runs of vases with the design duo
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Spanish artist and designer
Jaime Hayon, and the Italian designer and architect
Alessandro Mendini. Each design is made in an edition of 12, and though the website
doesn’t list prices, the
Times reported that they range from €7,000 to €12,000 ($7,743 to $13,273) per vase. Maison Matisse is also planning a permanent line of lower price point items, with new objects debuting three times a year. The first line of these items will be created by French designer Marta Bakowski and inspired by Matisse’s 1939 painting
La Musique, which
currently resides at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
The seed for the business was planted a decade ago, and the delay of its launch was partly due to the siblings wanting approval from other Matisse relatives, both in France and the United States. While the work conjures the great artist, Jean-Matthieu Matisse noted that he considers Maison Matisse’s output to be design objects, not fine art.
“I see our project as creating objects, but not ‘art objects,’” he told the Times. “People will be able to live with an object that has a certain presence, that speaks to them like Matisse.”